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Opacity in IE6 and hasLayout

Opacity in IE6 really is very buggy. Only today did I discover that it renders text nastily unless it has a background colour or image. And I spent quite a while toiling over this until I realised that height:1% wasn't triggering hasLayout (needed for filter property to work). Floating, absolutely positioning and the horrid zoom all worked. Why not height?

Here is an example. The top and bottom text about the dam both have height:1%, the second one also has absolute positioning.

I'm just curious about this and wonder if I'm missing something here about why height isn't triggering hasLayout, or if it's something specific to the filter property.